From: Sabine Atkins (sabine@posthuman.com)
Date: Sat Oct 14 2000 - 11:23:16 MDT
Alex Future Bokov wrote:
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> Perhaps the difference between an Extropian and a New Ager is that both
> score high on Eliezer's Shock Level scale, but the New Ager doesn't
> have ver fanciful thinking counterbalanced by the discipline of
> rational, critical thinking.
You are absolutely right.
My Mom always liked rational, critical thinking (her mother - a
Christian fundamentalist - gave her much trouble with irrational
thinking, maybe that's why). She also was never interested in being a
New Ager.
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Sabine Atkins -- http://sabine.posthuman.com/
Director, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
-- http://singinst.org/
Member of Extropy Institute, DE:Trans, Cryonics Institute
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